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10/15/2026

How many good projects are open in your company right now? How many will actually finish this quarter?

Bad projects are easy to kill. Good ones are not, because nobody can argue against them. So they stay open, drift to the back of everyone's attention, and quietly stop moving.

Pierson Roenke of C&B Complete Cleaning & Construction names it directly. Plenty of good projects, no reliable way to keep them top of mind and moving forward. What changed it was a 90 day rhythm his Next Level Growth Guide, Chris Prenovost, helped put in place.

A project nobody is against, but nobody owns this quarter, is not a priority. It is a wish with a name on it.

Count what is open, then count what will close by December.
If those two numbers are far apart, the Elite Organizations Assessment will tell you why.

Link in the comments.

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The most expensive mistake a leader can make is firing the right person for the wrong reason.When someone underperforms,...
10/14/2026

The most expensive mistake a leader can make is firing the right person for the wrong reason.

When someone underperforms, the instinct is to call it a people problem. Sometimes it is. But far more often, the person was handed a job that was never clearly defined and then held to a standard nobody ever wrote down.

Here is why that misread is so costly. When you treat a process gap as a people gap, you do not just lose that person, you lose the next one too, because they inherit the same gap and fail in the same place. You pay for the same undiagnosed problem twice.

A true people problem is the rarest answer, not the first one to reach for. Most of what gets blamed on people was never built as a process.

Read the full breakdown on the blog.

Link in the first comment.

10/13/2026

Your business is perfectly designed to get the results it's getting. Even if you never designed it.

Growth stalled? Profit stuck? Something underneath is producing that, whether anyone ever wrote it down or not. Work harder inside it and you get the same result, just more tired.

Look at the outcome that frustrates you most right now. What in the way your business runs is producing it?

Five Obsessions of Elite Organizations shows you how to redesign it on purpose.

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10/08/2026

Customers get a pitch. Employees get an assumption.

Companies spend real time crafting a story to convince a stranger to buy. Their own people get nothing deliberate, just the assumption that a paycheck and a job description are enough to keep them invested. That's a riskier bet than it looks.

People don't stay persuaded by an assumption the way they stay persuaded by a story, and the moment something better comes along, inertia alone doesn't hold.

When's the last time you gave your team an actual pitch for why this company matters, not just a paycheck?

Take the ELITE Organizations Assessment to see where an assumption has quietly replaced an actual pitch for your team.

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After nine years as a Certified EOS Implementer®, and after building her own large business from a startup to $26 millio...
10/07/2026

After nine years as a Certified EOS Implementer®, and after building her own large business from a startup to $26 million with 10,000 part-time W-2 employees across the country, Jessica Finn is taking her coaching and advisory work to the next level.

She guided more than 80 leadership teams, most of them YPO and YPO-sized companies. Long enough to know exactly what a system can and cannot do.

So she made a deliberate move. Not because the system failed her, but because she came to see that one-size-fits-all falls short. That search is what led her to Next Level Growth.

Long before she advised founders, she was one. She spent 18 years building EventPro Strategies into a $26 million company with more than 10,000 workers across North America, the business that earned her place in YPO.

Please join us in welcoming Jessica Finn to Next Level Growth as our newest Partner & Business Guide.

If your best employee didn't show up tomorrow, how much of your business would still run exactly the same?For most found...
10/06/2026

If your best employee didn't show up tomorrow, how much of your business would still run exactly the same?

For most founders, the honest answer is not long.

Nobody decided to build it that way. It just happens when the way work actually gets done lives in someone's head instead of somewhere your whole team can use.

Which process in your business only works because one specific person carries it?

The blog names the real reason this keeps happening, and it is not the one most owners assume.

Link in the first comment.

10/01/2026

How much of your business exists only in someone's head?

Undocumented work feels efficient. The person holding it is fast, they never complain, and writing it down looks like overhead you cannot spare.

Aethereal's Travis Cormier found the real cost. It did not matter who was out. Nobody knew how to cover them, and every gap pulled attention back into operating the business instead of growing it.

Write down the one thing only you know how to do. That is where a playbook starts, and Five Obsessions of Elite Organizations lays out the rest. Link in the comments.

A new hire does not learn your culture in onboarding. They learn it the first time they watch a standard get ignored, an...
09/30/2026

A new hire does not learn your culture in onboarding. They learn it the first time they watch a standard get ignored, and that moment usually takes about four seconds.

Most companies think they have a culture problem. What they actually have is a gap between one of three phases: Expectation, Commitment, and Ex*****on. Commitment is the one that fools people, because agreement under supervision looks identical to real buy-in, right up until nobody is watching anymore.

Which phase is quietly breaking in your business?

Most leaders assume they already know. Almost none have actually checked. Take the Elite Organizations Assessment and find out if you are right.

Link in the first comment.

09/29/2026

Every leader means "I want you to get better." Every employee hears "he's going to get rid of me anyway."

That gap isn't about the hard conversation. It's about what never got made clear before it happened. Clarity upfront removes the room for debate entirely, because everyone already knows where they stand.

Did your team agree to that standard before they needed correcting, or are they hearing it for the first time right now?

Clear expectations aren't a nice-to-have. They're what turns a hard conversation into an easy one. Take the ELITE Organizations Assessment to see where that clarity is missing.

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09/24/2026

When was the last investment you made in the business that was not equipment, headcount, or marketing?

Most owners cannot answer quickly. You can model the return on a truck, a hire, or a campaign. You cannot model the return on becoming a better leader, so it never makes the budget.

Ask the owners in this room what the last year was worth and they land somewhere unexpected. Not the coaching. Not the tools. The room itself, and the other owners carrying the same weight.

Ownership is isolating by design. You are the only one who sees the whole picture, which makes you the only one who never gets to think out loud.

Before deciding where the next investment goes, get a clear read on where the business actually needs it. Take the Elite Organizations Assessment. Link in the comments.

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